Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-07-07
PARTISAN MARKETING.
A Correspondents Experience In the Gay
Capital of France.

- wa ASnpohuchb experience In the CAV
Capital of France.
Especial Correspondence
PARIS, June Is.
Coffee b)acker than in America Burned
blacker. Burned to a crisp. Loaf sugar
broken in chunks big enough to macadamize
roads with. Queer kind of lettuce. Looks
like a cabbage. Two cents each, Generous
vegetable dealers. Throw in gratis with
each purchase bits of parsley, onion tops and
other herbs for soup seasoning. Head, feet,
gizzard, heart and other internal apparatus
OF chicken sold i'll separate lots, for six cents
Bread cheap. Four cents buys a mans day
rations Loaves half as long as fence rails
Not much thicker. Boy carries them home
under arm from bakers. Lays 'em down on
sidewalk to play marbles with other bow.
Baker keeps bread guillotine to cut loaves up
In hunks to make proper weight. All bread
sold by weight. Wine bordeaux six cents a
bottle-half vinegar, half pump. No gin
never useo. Strawoerrles ten cents pound
and ten times larger than ours. Have
weighed them. Thirty to the pound. Ped
died on street by the hand cart load Milk
four cents quart. Dealers boil it in warm
weather. Impossible to get a chop or steak
before 1890 i'll the morning Nobody eats
early hearty breakfast. Only rolls and coffee.
Man on pinch can live here OH fifteen cents
day. Thus: Bouillon, one quart, eight
cents; bread, four cents; fried potatoes
tplenty), three cents. For ten cents more
you cali have two cents worth of cheese, two
large glasses Of wine, two cents for fried fish
and seven smokes of tobacco Six cents
more will buy all the brandy YOU ought to
have per diem. Average French cookery
runs too much to fluid Mashed potatoes too
watery. Soup too thin. Vegetables more
soaked than boiled Have seen a GOOD
stew made Of one mutton chop Skillful ar
rangemeEt Lots Of gravy with it. Gives
one impression there's lots Of meat. Just as
Well. 10 breakfast without wine is to be &C.
centric. Beefsteak cut without any bone in
It, Butcher in cutting climbs up to beef car
cas- on ladder. Pork sold in separate shops.
Liver ditto. Pork the cheapest of meats
Same shop keeps roast pork and all kinds of
cooked pork; also boiled ham, seven kinds of
sausage and nine kinds tat rough guess) of
potted pork meat. Tended by girls, good
looking; handle knife, saw and cleaver like
army surgeons. Gill cashier ditto. Horse
meat sold at special shops; license to sell nee
sssary; hung up and labeled "prime horse,
mule and asses meat Looks very red: no
TAT. Bouillon, when bought, always carried
rom shop home In pail made for the pur.
pose, wider at bottom than top, so as to give
most heating surface on the stove when
warmed up. Lots of meat or butcher shops
With kitchen attached; raw meat at one end,
cooked meat at the other; bouillon distilling
always going on in sight OF sidewalk. All
cooked meats sold from two cents worth up- |
ward. No chance for meat to spoil in these |
hops. At preliminary notice of ,dscomposi- !
ion joint. hook, bono, ETC., flung into the |
1ot Sensible idea. Meat enough in New
ork thrown away every day to feed half |
Faris. Have tried horse meat; bought it by
nistake IN London, cooked, boiled, for cats;
ooked exactly like roast beef rare; carried
~ man IN basket; cal led ont: Cats meatn
Couldn't understand hin. London English:
ats know his yell; rush to front doors when
hey hear him, tails up. p NJ